besmirched by Rajiv Gandhi. The process really started earlier in his mother's time. From a broad-based political movement and a platform for consensus politics, the Congress was reduced by Indira Gandhi and her two sons into a soulless instrument for manipulation and family domination. If India's nascent democratic culture has to be revived and developed, then the main source of its degeneration, the Congress(I), has to be seriously crippled. To be more blunt, if the restoration of the dynastic rule is to be precluded, then the Congress(I) has to be split.
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